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When you run a busy practice or clinic, the best thing that you can do is to make sure that your medical billing services department staff are up to date on their training for clinical coding optimization. Recent issues within the healthcare industry have brought the importance of continual training and support for staff to…

Whether you like them or not, medical chart audits are a necessary evil. However, they don’t actually have to be “evil” either, if you can learn to see them as a helpful tool. Your medical charts are an important part of proper ENT account management and, in the bigger picture, they are essential for proper…

One of the goals of any medical billing and coding department should be to improve the production and reliability of their staff. Some offices choose to eliminate account management responsibilities from in-house staff, outsourcing billing ENT services instead. Others choose instead to take an educational approach by hiring a healthcare consultant to evaluate their current…

When trying to improve your in-house ENT billing and coding, one way to accomplish this is by hiring healthcare consulting companies to provide you with custom medical reporting. Your custom reports can be used to highlight issues that are occurring that could be causing delays or rejections for Medicare reimbursement or issues with patient billing.…

Thanks to all of the changes in ENT billing and coding, due in large part to the recent ICD-10 changes and Affordable Care Act regulations, many practices have elected to outsource ENT billing with a company that specializes in otolaryngology healthcare support and services. Outsourcing medical billing services may sound like you are taking the…

Physician credentialing is one of those “necessary evils” that is required to run an otolaryngology practice or clinic. It must be done accurately and it should be done right away to ensure that there aren’t any unnecessary delays. Some of the issues associated with delays in credentialing services include problems with scheduling and delays in…

When you hire a health consulting firm to help you and your team improve your ENT account management, medical billing and coding, Medicare reimbursement or to perform offside CPA audits, it is important to stay on top of your fresh, clean start through the use of continued audits and analysis that can be used to…

One of the most proactive and productive things that you can do for the current and future betterment of your otolaryngology management, billing and coding is to make sure that your staff keeps up with education for medical billing services. Clinical coding optimization has changed a lot in recent years, and it is more important…

Back in the day, many medical offices and clinics chose not to accept certain insurances or required cash payment for services because patients preferred to work that way. Now, with so much focus on healthcare and insurance in the United States, and with rising costs in insurance premiums, more patients are choosing to use their…

The number one goal of any doctor’s office or clinic should be to help their patients. But the truth is that the only way you can stay “in business” to be able to help your patients in the future, is to stay on top of your ENT account management. If you are really in the…